The commander of the Devil's Brigade saw that the Central Army's offensive was fierce and numerous, and that there was a shortage of food and ammunition due to the fact that the logistics materials had been burned and that there was a shortage of food and ammunition, and that if they continued to fight hard here, it was estimated that they would be surrounded by the superior Chinese army, so he hurriedly retreated some distance behind, not far from the place where they had just started to attack.

That is to say, the Devil Brigade under the Nakajima Devil Division fought with Commander Hu and his two brigades on the Danyang and Tangshan lines for several days, but now they have returned to the starting point, not only did the Chinese army defense on the Danyang line not take down, but also the Devil Brigade also lost a lot of soldiers, the artillery brigade was completely annihilated by the Chinese army, and all the materials stored in the vicinity were burned down, and the losses were heavy.

After Division Commander Hu regained the position on the Danyang front line that had been captured by the devils before, he was full of ambition and wanted to take advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack in the direction of Changzhou, but at this time he received a telegram from Division Commander Xu and Han Fei, in which Division Commander Xu claimed that he had just intercepted the latest devil information, and asked Division Commander Hu to return to Zhenjiang immediately to discuss, this matter is related to the life and death of Zhenjiang and Nanjing City, please Master Hu must hurry back!

After receiving this telegram, Division Commander Hu immediately took a few staff officers and officers to ride fast horses towards Zhenjiang City, marching to the riverside more than ten kilometers south of Zhenjiang City.

When the Suzuki devil led one of his squadron of men to attack the east gate of Jiangyin City, he left these more than ten devils to stay on guard by the river, the purpose was to let these devil soldiers hold this retreat, in case the attack on the east gate of Zhenjiang City failed, there was a way to retreat.

Several devil bombers flew over the heads of Division Commander Hu and them, and the "roar" of the planes caused the panic of the fast horses on which Division Commander Hu and the others were riding, and the horse's head was immediately raised, and its front legs were erected, and there were bursts of neighing sounds.

When Master Hu saw that there were devil planes, he secretly screamed badly, so he hurriedly dismounted and hid in the nearby reeds, but then he found that these devil planes were not coming at him at all, but kept flying towards Zhenjiang City in front, and dropped huge bombs on the position over there!

Division Commander Hu looked at the telescope for a while, and knew that there must be devil troops attacking Zhenjiang City in front, and those flying devil planes were here to support these devil troops besieging the city!

Division Commander Hu hurriedly said to the officers beside him: "Everyone, there are more than ten devils on the river in front of us blocking our way, and the east gate of Zhenjiang City has become a mess, let's go over, or bypass this river from here, so that we have to walk dozens of kilometers, or kill those devil soldiers in front of us and cross the river directly, what do you think?" ”

As soon as Master Hu's words fell, the officers around him shouted, "Aren't they just a dozen devil soldiers?" Just touch them and kill them! ”

Master Hu nodded: "Okay, then you guys prepare it right away and do it immediately!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, two wooden platoons quietly went down to the upper reaches of the devils who were staying by the river, and in order to prevent the neighing of the horses from attracting the attention of the devil soldiers, Master Hu hid the fast horses in the nearby woods, cut down a few trees, tied them into two wooden rafts, and crossed the river.

This Jianghu division commander is very familiar, he has come here many times to check the terrain during the period of garrison here, and knows that although this river is deep, it is not wide, and there is a big turn a few miles upstream here, and the river surface over there is even narrower, and crossing the river from there should be able to avoid the monitoring of the little devil sentry and succeed smoothly.

Sure enough, when Master Hu and they carried those wooden platoons along the river bank and walked a few miles upstream, they went into the water to cross the river there, and sure enough, they did not arouse the alarm of the little devils on the river bank, those dozen devils were not familiar with the place and were completely unfamiliar with the terrain here, where would they have thought that at this moment there were two wooden platoons driving towards them, and those people on it were their sworn enemies - the Chinese army!

After successfully crossing the river and going ashore, the division commander took his officers and staff officers to touch the devil's position, this time the division commander they had a total of only seven people, except for two guards with "flower machine guns", the rest were Browning small pistols, the larger the official position in the **** unit, the smaller the gun worn, Division Commander Hu was already a lieutenant general, and the gun was a Browning M-1911 pistol, 0. 45 inches (11. 43mm) caliber, the caliber of the gun bullet is large, the power is sufficient, and the melee weapon is sharp.

But Division Commander Hu hasn't used this Browning gun for a long time, in the chairman's chamber for a while, he was in charge of guard scheduling, naturally there is no chance to shoot, since he was assigned to the Central Army as the commander of the garrison stationed in Zhenjiang, there are a large number of guards around him, and he doesn't need to shoot himself, but this time it's different, he also has to take a pistol with his brothers to sneak attack the devil soldiers, if the fight starts, the two guards who followed him probably can't take care of him for a while.

Along the reeds on the bank of the river, Master Hu and they touched the vicinity of the dozen or so devils, these devils hid in the trench dug up, only revealing a head wearing a steel helmet, Master Hu looked over there with a telescope for a while, and found that it was not easy to start, there was a "92" heavy machine gun on the devil's position, and a crooked machine gun, and there were two 60mm mortars, and the devil team of more than ten people actually had such a powerful firepower, and there were only four devils with a three-eight cover, and the firepower of these devils was quite fierce. It's not going to be easy to take them out.

Division Commander Hu frowned and thought for a while, and asked the staff officer behind him: "We have to think of a way to let those devils come out of the trenches, otherwise we will not be enough for their light and heavy machine guns to sweep in a row." ”

Those staff officers scratched the back of their heads for a while, and there was still a way to follow the two guards of Division Commander Hu, but after they said this method, Division Commander Hu's face immediately changed greatly, and he shook his head again and again: "This must not be, you are joking about my reputation." ”

As soon as I heard the division's stern refusal, the two guards were out of line, this matter was not easy to do, there were more than a dozen devils hiding in the trenches on the opposite side, where were the light and heavy machine guns and mortar mounts, as long as they touched the front, they would definitely pay attention to the devils, and when the time came, a rain of bullets swept over, and there was an open field here, there was no shelter around, there was no place to hide, and it would definitely have to be beaten into a hornet's nest by bullets.